Text to Speech software

[Mario Marietto]

Hello.

Where can I find Espeakm ?

On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 6:44 AM Grizzlly via ubuntu-users <
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Wednesday, July 03, 2024  at 20:33, Robert Heller wrote:
> Re: Text to Speech software (at least in part)
>
> >> Hi
>
> >> Looking for good  "Text to Speech" software, would like something that
> does not
> >> sound like Stephen Hawkins trying decide on lunch choices but is not
> too hard
> >> to install and setup, a search around the net found ESpeakm all others
> I found
> >> seemn to be aimed at software devs to combine in other projects, and
> need very
> >> high coding levels to use (so really a /w dev)
>
> >> I don't mind if it's CmdLine or GUI, but it should sound natural(ish)
> Enflish
> >> is fine so multi-language support is not that important, a few voices
> would be
> >> nice, but a good male & female will do at a push
>
> >The problem with "cheap" "Text to Speech" software is that it is phoneme
> based.
> >And there are two problems: English spelling is horrible from a phoneme
> point
> >of view: many English words are NOT spelled to match spoken English. The
> >second problem is that with "natural" spoken English, some words are
> spoken
> >differently (actually different phonemes) depending on context. So you
> have to
> >do things: convert the text to a sequence of phonemes, but not just a
> >word-by-word lookup and replace, but analysing whole sentences.
>
> >The "Stephen Hawkins" (aka "Speak And Spell") style of "Text to Speech"
> >systems either do a direct latin alphabet word intellegable speech, it
> does
> >sound "strange" and "unnatural" (clasic 1950s SciFi movie evil robot).
>
> >Note: most of the speech oriented assistant systems are NOT generally
> using
> >true "Text to Speech", but are mostly using recorded voice. This is
> generally
> >also true for phone answering systems. For some things words (like digits,
> >letters, months, state names, etc), but often whole phrases.  I supose
> some AI
> >systems might be doing "intellegent" phoneme generation and maybe might
> be
> >"modulating" the phonemes to produce "natural" human voice (as opposed to
> >gender netural "Stephen Hawkins" / "Speak And Spell" phonemes).
>
> Many thanks,
>
> I hoped TTS had come a long way since "MS Sue" which seems to have not
> changed
> since Win95
>
> Tho old owner of my MacBookPro had a rather nice TTS (Apples default IIRC)
> that
> he played "text" files (ePub, Pdf etc) it sounded almost as good as most
> of my
> own mp3 audio books
>
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Mario.
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